Will the Dems get a clue that they need to do SOMETHING not to be perceived as the Party of Hollywood (and I have no problem with Hollywood) but the party of the working people, as it should be?
It should be so easy: the party on the side of women, children, old folks, minorities, all the people who actually need a voice. Never seems hard to me. Add the Earth in there, too. It needs a voice. I thought that was what government was for - supporting those who are in need of a voice, for, y'know, a better union sort of thing...
They hate *people*. They are filthy Calvinists who think humans are "depraved and corrupt" and need a Big Daddy type cracking the whip over them to make sure they don't wallow in their filth and corruption on the daily.
They believe humans are depraved and corrupt because that's what they see in the mirror. As for their "benefactors" in the business world, they have no ethos but greed. They're a black hole into which one simply can't throw enough advantage, money, real estate, toys, etc.
You know, it would be a shame if a few hundred voters all coordinated in secret to show up one day when the local office is closed, bringing with them a roll of adhesive tape and a print out of their grievances, and posted them on the front of his office.
If you can't reach him any other way, leave a note. A very public note.
Very Martin Luther. I approve. (Of course, I can't say I approve of Martin Luther; he was a raging antisemite who reserved his worst opprobrium for us Jews.) However, the note on the church door was a brilliant stroke.
This is why the fuckery regarding gerrymandering and redistricting is so insidious. They know they are invulnerable. These same people pissed off about Musk stealing their SS will all vote GOP again in 26. Reps will just run some ads with grainy shots of LGBTQ people or brown skinned people and problem solved.
IIRC, we have someone named Dick Armey, and his friends, who realized that if they controlled the big House delegation from Texas, the could control Congress. So far, it looks like their gerrymander is winning.
Heh. This is kind of a cellular dead zone, so a lot of people also still have a landline, or whatever they call digital phones now. There are no copper lines anymore. If not for wifi, mine would be useless at home.
Senior Tesla executives and members of the board, including Elon Musk's own brother, are divesting their shareholdings in the company whilst the stock value continues its precipitous decline.
Early Tesla investor Ross Gerber is publicly calling for Musk to step down as the company rapidly loses EV market share across the globe. However, the final nail in the coffin came earlier this week as China EV juggernaut BYD unveiled a new technology that allows EVs to fully recharge in as little as 5 minutes, no longer than filling up a tank of gas. BYD is releasing the technology next month!
JP Morgan predicts Tesla's stock price will drop another 50% from current levels, setting off a range of financial repercussions for Elon Musk, who used his Tesla shares as collateral for his Twitter loans.
At this moment, even if Elon steps down, Tesla remains toxic
There will have to be COMPLETE proof that Elon has no more influence in the board and money in the Tesla stock, that his family and Repuke cronies ALSO are out of Tesla, before I would consider giving Tesla a chance again.
Hey, Chuck, have you ever wondered why do AOC and Bernie get tens of thousands of people to pause their daily lives and gather to listen to them while the same people are kind of disgusted by YOU?
You're right about that! Just looked up his background a bit –
Chuck Schumer graduated from Harvard Law School on June 13, 1974. Former Attorney General Elliott Richardson was Class Day speaker. Nixon resigned eight weeks later, on Aug 8.
Schumer was elected to the New York State Assembly on Nov. 5, 1974, replacing his mentor Stephen Solarz. Schumer turned 24 just 18 days later. He passed the bar exam the following year, but never practiced law; he has been in public office continuously since 1974.
I always thought of law school as a trade school. You don't have to "practice," I knew a few who wouldn't recognize a courtroom. One guy didn't bother to take the bar exam, he just went straight to work for an outfit that published law school textbooks. He already had a masters in "Communication."
Hah, that one moment when book publishing was kind of lucrative - textbook sales were deeply embedded in a web of obligations, constrictions, and overpricing. Surprise: the losers in this game were the authors and the students.
Reminds me of when McVeigh's lawyer had pictures of him with Tim with a big smile on his face before he went on trial for blowing up the federal building.
The fact that GOP pols and their stooges at CNBC and Bloomberg are twisting themselves into pretzels defending tariffs tells you all you need to know. Never once in my 40 years following politics have I heard a GOPer espousing the joys tariffs.
A geographic anomaly! Two weeks from everywhere! (One of my favorite movies.)
Next week's Movie Night selection is 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐭. It is is available with subscription on Disney+. $3.99 in the usual places.
Hard to believe I know but all of us ain't cool enough to know "the usual places." Any chance you could be more specific?
Prime, YouTube, Apple TV, Google Play and Fandango At Home.
Ill leave this here:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qFxXV4RorN0&si=D_OK0G3GTg2U_bro
The Flood: oof.
Fargo and Dr Strangelove come to mind
The depiction of bluegrass was demeaning. Pass.
Tell us how you *really* feel, Bill Monroe.
I just did. Read it again while listening to some Bill Monroe. :)
Oh, you poor thing, Are you going to be all right?
Whoh, someone doesn't like a movie you liked, and you can't leave it be? And you're inquiring about my peace of mind? The fuq is wrong with you?
MOVIE NIGHT DISCLAIMER: You need neither like nor watch the Movie Night Movie,
You need neither like nor respond to someone's opinion. Fuq off.
That perception that Democrats are the elite party is reality.
Knowing that we're on our own is too terrifying to deal with, so we dream on.
The difference is that the Democrat party can put on a well-produced floor show,
with better makeup artists and casting agents, before they screw you.
They don't want your grubby hands on their money, either.
The street protests, carrying signs with clever social media ready slogans
might as well be thoughts and prayers for all the good they do,
except maybe get in the Guinness Book of Records for group masturbation.
Harsh?
Do you truly think that things are what they are today because Republicans outsmarted us?
You bought the right-wing propaganda.
Money talks, bullshit walks.
Chaka Khan is 72 years old today. Here she is with her band and a Tiny Desk Concert from last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gse1LKXuV2M
Their faces when people started singing Sweet Thing was wonderful
She remains a gorgeous godess.
OMG, thank you!!!!!!! I had no idea she did one of these.
LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eventually everyone will have a Tiny Desk Concert. It's one of my favorite rabbit holes to go down.
I saw Nile Rodgers has one. That is book marked for me for later
Just heard on MSNBC that 15K showed up at the Tempe, AZ Sanders/AOC rally this week.
24K in Tucson.
34K in Denver.
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will the Dems get a clue that they need to do SOMETHING not to be perceived as the Party of Hollywood (and I have no problem with Hollywood) but the party of the working people, as it should be?
I hope so.
It should be so easy: the party on the side of women, children, old folks, minorities, all the people who actually need a voice. Never seems hard to me. Add the Earth in there, too. It needs a voice. I thought that was what government was for - supporting those who are in need of a voice, for, y'know, a better union sort of thing...
It should be easy, because it is.
But they don't, because they aren't.
Shhhhhhhhhh! You'll get us all disappeared for Wrongthink!
Why do republicans hate Americans?
Why is this one question not being asked?
They hate *people*. They are filthy Calvinists who think humans are "depraved and corrupt" and need a Big Daddy type cracking the whip over them to make sure they don't wallow in their filth and corruption on the daily.
They are horrible fucking people.
And they think they're average.
They believe humans are depraved and corrupt because that's what they see in the mirror. As for their "benefactors" in the business world, they have no ethos but greed. They're a black hole into which one simply can't throw enough advantage, money, real estate, toys, etc.
𝙉𝙤𝙬 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 "𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨" 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙜 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙨. 𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣'
Fear and Loathing Campaign Trail (Facebook)
"I was just following orders" covers you for a lot of things. Participating in mass murder is not one of them.
I've been thinking that for a few months now, maybe they didn't study the aftermath of WWII in high school history.
Whoops!
Flood of calls prompt GOP congressman to shut off voicemail – irking voters. https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/03/flood-of-calls-prompt-gop-congressman-to-shut-off-voicemail-irking-voters.html
You know, it would be a shame if a few hundred voters all coordinated in secret to show up one day when the local office is closed, bringing with them a roll of adhesive tape and a print out of their grievances, and posted them on the front of his office.
If you can't reach him any other way, leave a note. A very public note.
Very Martin Luther. I approve. (Of course, I can't say I approve of Martin Luther; he was a raging antisemite who reserved his worst opprobrium for us Jews.) However, the note on the church door was a brilliant stroke.
This is why the fuckery regarding gerrymandering and redistricting is so insidious. They know they are invulnerable. These same people pissed off about Musk stealing their SS will all vote GOP again in 26. Reps will just run some ads with grainy shots of LGBTQ people or brown skinned people and problem solved.
IIRC, we have someone named Dick Armey, and his friends, who realized that if they controlled the big House delegation from Texas, the could control Congress. So far, it looks like their gerrymander is winning.
The "Permanent Majority."
That's pretty pathetic if he can't even handle negative voicemail incoming.
Mine has my number blocked because I have an out of state area code. I flood his inbox, though.
Having an in-state area code means one has lived there too long.
Heh. This is kind of a cellular dead zone, so a lot of people also still have a landline, or whatever they call digital phones now. There are no copper lines anymore. If not for wifi, mine would be useless at home.
Robert Aluka
March 20 at 12:15 AM
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Senior Tesla executives and members of the board, including Elon Musk's own brother, are divesting their shareholdings in the company whilst the stock value continues its precipitous decline.
Early Tesla investor Ross Gerber is publicly calling for Musk to step down as the company rapidly loses EV market share across the globe. However, the final nail in the coffin came earlier this week as China EV juggernaut BYD unveiled a new technology that allows EVs to fully recharge in as little as 5 minutes, no longer than filling up a tank of gas. BYD is releasing the technology next month!
JP Morgan predicts Tesla's stock price will drop another 50% from current levels, setting off a range of financial repercussions for Elon Musk, who used his Tesla shares as collateral for his Twitter loans.
Sounds like a vote of no confidence, doesn't it?
Wait until they make selling Tesla stock an act of terrorism.
At this moment, even if Elon steps down, Tesla remains toxic
There will have to be COMPLETE proof that Elon has no more influence in the board and money in the Tesla stock, that his family and Repuke cronies ALSO are out of Tesla, before I would consider giving Tesla a chance again.
"Sell!! Sell!! TURN THOSE DAMN MACHINES BACK ON!!!"
Gerber is being a baby about it
XD XD XD XD XD
Whoops!
Flood of calls prompt GOP congressman to shut off voicemail – irking voters. https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/03/flood-of-calls-prompt-gop-congressman-to-shut-off-voicemail-irking-voters.html
Aren't they lawfully required to keep the line of communication open? What an absolute nutsuck
Maybe run that by Joe Biden for his reaction.
"Defiant Chuck Schumer hits back at Nancy Pelosi, vows ‘I’m not stepping down’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/23/us-news/defiant-chuck-schumer-hits-back-at-nancy-pelosi-vows-im-not-stepping-down/
At least octogenarians don't need cages.
Schumer is spending more time fighting for his seat in the Senate and chairmanship than he is fighting for his constituents.
Hey, Chuck, have you ever wondered why do AOC and Bernie get tens of thousands of people to pause their daily lives and gather to listen to them while the same people are kind of disgusted by YOU?
"Now we have to fight that back in every single way,” he continued.
Ship. Sailed. Already.
Hmm...is Chuck in the pocket of some unnamed billionaire? Threats to family?
Or just naturally dumb/entitled?
Probably never had a job in the "private sector."
You're right about that! Just looked up his background a bit –
Chuck Schumer graduated from Harvard Law School on June 13, 1974. Former Attorney General Elliott Richardson was Class Day speaker. Nixon resigned eight weeks later, on Aug 8.
Schumer was elected to the New York State Assembly on Nov. 5, 1974, replacing his mentor Stephen Solarz. Schumer turned 24 just 18 days later. He passed the bar exam the following year, but never practiced law; he has been in public office continuously since 1974.
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2010/11/steve-solarz-1940-2010-and-the-making-of-senator-schumer-068878
I always thought of law school as a trade school. You don't have to "practice," I knew a few who wouldn't recognize a courtroom. One guy didn't bother to take the bar exam, he just went straight to work for an outfit that published law school textbooks. He already had a masters in "Communication."
Sounds kinda incestuous.
Hah, that one moment when book publishing was kind of lucrative - textbook sales were deeply embedded in a web of obligations, constrictions, and overpricing. Surprise: the losers in this game were the authors and the students.
Maybe the surgeon who did RFK Jr's brain work missed the organ.
cf. Alito.
Chuckie is taking on that "Alito Attitude" ... not good, CHUCK.
...someone needs to give him a push.
Russian window style
Watch the first minute of this as Bessent attempts to make Americans love DOGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Z9A5tWZHA
Reminds me of when McVeigh's lawyer had pictures of him with Tim with a big smile on his face before he went on trial for blowing up the federal building.
The fact that GOP pols and their stooges at CNBC and Bloomberg are twisting themselves into pretzels defending tariffs tells you all you need to know. Never once in my 40 years following politics have I heard a GOPer espousing the joys tariffs.
The last Republican President who defended tariffs as strongly as this was Hoover.
Yeah, Hoover. Who knew what was coming and sold all his stocks and bought gold.
It was only a dozen or so toddlers slain.
Macht nichts, really.
That posh prick compels me to contemplate a number of ban-hammerables.